Like Blunderbuss, White has been recording the Buzzards and the Peacocks, his separate male and female bands, respectively. "Everybody involved was inspired," he says of working with the bands. "Nobody had really done that before, and it was scary in a way. I wanted to keep that going on this one. I just want to write and bring the Buzzards and Peacocks in and work on some things and work on the things with no intention of what it's going to be. No competition between the bands – just keep writing and recording until I decide what it's going to be."

So what's it sounding like? "It's definitely not one sound," he says. "It's all over the place. After going out on the road with two bands, that a gigantic new family, my influences have just spread out even more."

White isn't sure when he'll release the follow-up. "I don't know if it'll come out this year or not," he adds. "The last one kind of came together so strangely, I was in the middle of making it and I didn't realize I was doing it, you know? I was just doing it because I needed to get these songs down and then I realized I was making a record."

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